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Seymour Cray Computer Engineering AwardNomination Deadline: 1 July 2012 NOMINATE | Nomination Questions pdf The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements. Established in late 1997. A crystal memento, illuminated certificate, and $10,000 honorarium are awarded to recognize innovative contributions to high performance computing systems that best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by Seymour Cray.
Past recipients for Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
Charles Seitz Named Recipient of Seymour Cray Computer Engineering AwardLOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 5 October, 2011 – Charles Seitz, an architect and designer of innovative computing and communication systems, has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s 2011 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.Known for creating new disciplines of digital design, Seitz was recognized “for innovations in high-performance message-passing architectures and networks.” He is scheduled to accept the award at the keynote session at SC11 in Seattle, Washington on Tuesday morning, 15 November. Seitz’s fascination with digital design dates back to the 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned SB, SM, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering. While a graduate student, he taught courses in switching and automata theory, developed MIT’s digital-system project-laboratory course, and received the MIT Goodwin Medal “for conspicuously effective teaching.” While he was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Utah, Seitz worked also at the Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., where he helped design the highest performance graphics engines of the time. After conducting research for Burroughs on digital-video techniques of aperture filtering, Seitz joined the computer science faculty at Caltech, where he focused on very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design and concurrent computing. In 1994, Seitz led the team that founded Myricom Inc., where he served as president and CEO until last year. The company’s Myrinet high-performance interconnects and switches are a direct descendent of multicomputer message-passing networks. The Seymour Cray Award is one of the IEEE Computer Society's highest awards, and is presented in recognition of innovative contributions to high-performance computing systems that best exemplify Cray’s creative spirit. The award consists of a crystal memento, certificate, and a $10,000 honorarium. The 2010 Seymour Cray award went to Alan Gara, chief system architect for the three generations of Blue Gene supercomputers. An IBM Fellow at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, NY, since 2006, Gara was honored for his “innovations in low power, densely packaged supercomputing systems.” Kenichi Miura, a professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Japan, received the 2009 Cray award. Other previous recipients include Ken Batcher, John Cocke, Glen Culler, William J. Dally, Monty Denneau, John L. Hennessy, Steven L. Scott, Burton J. Smith, Steven Wallach, and Tadashi Watanabe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Blue Gene Architect Alan Gara to Receive 2010 Cray AwardLOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 4 October, 2010 – Alan Gara, chief system architect for the three generations of Blue Gene supercomputers, has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s 2010 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. An IBM Fellow at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, NY, since 2006, Gara now leads IBM’s exascale system research. He is being honored for his "innovations in low power, densely packaged supercomputing systems," and is set to receive the award on 17 November at SC10 in New Orleans. Affiliated with the T.J. Watson Research Center since 1999, Gara holds a PhD in theoretical physics from University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received Gordon Bell awards in 1998 and 2006 for his scientific work in supercomputing. In addition, the Blue Gene supercomputer received a national medal of technology and innovation in 2009. Gara served as technical project leader and chief system architect for the BlueGene systems design, which represented a radical reconceptualization of distributed memory parallel systems. Rather than integrating and exploiting existing components, Blue Gene was a complete design based on a desire for dense packaging, low power operation, efficient cooling, and a high mean time to failure (MTBF) to facilitate large hardware configurations. Combining torus and tree networks for communication, and a custom system on a chip (SoC) node design, the BlueGene series set new standards for ultra-high performance, occupying the top position on the Top500 list of supercomputers for several years. Gara not only conceived the low power BlueGene design, but was the driving force behind its realization. He identified power consumption and reliability as two of the primary constraints on the continued scaling of supercomputing architecture, something now widely recognized in international plans for exascale computing. He then created a design based on low-power SoC nodes, with dense packaging and multiple interconnection networks that scaled beyond anything previously envisioned. The integrated design embodies the spirit of Seymour Cray’s novel designs, which were marvels of integrated engineering. The Seymour Cray Award is one of the IEEE Computer Society's highest awards, and is presented in recognition of innovative contributions to high-performance computing systems that best exemplify Cray’s creative spirit. The award consists of a crystal memento, certificate, and a $10,000 honorarium. Kenichi Miura, a professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Japan, received the 2009 Cray award. Other previous recipients include Ken Batcher, John Cocke, Glen Culler, William J. Dally, Monty Denneau, John L. Hennessy, Steven L. Scott, Burton J. Smith, Steven Wallach, and Tadashi Watanabe. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2009 Seymour Cray Award Goes to NII’s Kenichi MiuraLOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 15 October, 2009 – Kenichi Miura, a professor at the National Institute of Informatics, is the 2009 winner of the IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. Miura, a professor in NII’s Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division, is also director of the Center for Grid Research and Development. He was cited for leading the groundbreaking development of the Fujitsu vector processors, hardware, and software. Miura was recognized for his unique contributions to the field of computer engineering by bringing a strong background in numerical algorithms and applications to the task of designing systems that deliver high performance on real scientific applications. The 1987 introduction of the Fujitsu VPP-100/200 was a major milestone in the history of supercomputer design. Miura made seminal contributions to the Fujitsu supercomputer design, showing how effective vectorizing compilers could exploit architectural features such as trading vector length for number of vector registers. He was the first to vectorize Monte Carlo radiation transport using the techniques, something that has profoundly affected important applications such as computational crash analysis for automobile safety design. The ease of program development and the delivered performance caused a significant reexamination of supercomputer research, performance and approaches, influencing the worldwide market for high-performance computing technologies. The resulting designs and products were, at the time, the fastest machines in the world, largely based on Miura’s work. “The IEEE Computer Society is honored to recognize Dr. Miura’s ingenuity in developing supercomputer software and hardware that advanced the state-of-the art in technical computing,” noted President Susan K. (Kathy) Land. Cray Award Selection Chair Daniel Reed wrote that “Dr. Miura was one of the key leaders of the Japanese supercomputing designs, which were the only peers of the pioneering designs created by Seymour Cray.” Miura holds a BSEE in physics from the University of Tokyo, an MSEE in computer science, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois. He has authored many technical publications and was the 2008 recipient of the SC Cornerstone Award. Established in 1998 by the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors, the Seymour Cray Award is given each year to individuals whose innovative contributions to high-performance computing systems best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by the late Seymour Cray. The award includes a crystal model, certificate, and US $10,000 honorarium. Miura will accept the award during the 14-20 November SC09 Conference in Portland, Oregon. He is scheduled to deliver a plenary session speech at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 18 November.
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From the IEEE Computer Society Press Room SC09: Seymour Cray AwardKenichi Miura, a professor at the National Institute of Informatics, is the 2009 winner of the IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. Miura, a professor in NII’s Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division, is also director of the Center for Grid Research and Development and a Fellow of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. He was cited for leading the groundbreaking development of the Fujitsu vector processors, hardware, and software. Miura was recognized for his unique contributions to the field of computer engineering by bringing a strong background in numerical algorithms and applications to the task of designing systems that deliver high performance on real scientific applications. 2011 Seymour Cray Award SessionSC 11 - November 15, 2011 - Seattle, WA |
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Sorel Reisman, 2011 Computer Society President presents 2011 Seymour Cray Award to
Dr. Charles Seitz. Dr. Graham and Dr. Moler were also honored at SC 11.
Cick here to view award flyer.
~ Past Award Presentation ~
2010 Seymour Cray Award Session
SC 10 | November 17, 2010 | New Orleans, LA
Honoring Alan Gara
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Sorel Reisman, 2011 Computer Society President presents 2010 Seymour Cray Award to
Dr. Alan Gara. Cick here to view award flyer.
~ Past Award Presentation ~
2009 Seymour Cray Award Session
SC 09 - 18 November 2009 - Portland OR
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